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science
Calderas Across Two Worlds
One of the most common features found at large volcanoes are calderas, formed by the collapse of the land due to eruption. The scale of...
discovermagazine.com
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science
Dark energy camera captures the glittering galaxies of the Antlia Cluster
NSF NOIRLab rings in the New Year with a glittering galaxyscape captured with the Department of Energy-fabricated Dark Energy Camera, mounted on the...
phys.org
@ 30+ days ago
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science
LMC passing through Milky Way halo (artist’s concept)
This artist’s concept shows the Large Magellanic Cloud, or LMC, in the foreground as it passes through the gaseous halo of the much more...
esahubble.org
@ 30+ days ago
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science
New Year's northern lights delight as powerful solar storms spark auroras across central US and Europe (photos)
Last night, the sun and Earth collaborated to give us a light show that no fireworks display could rival. Happy New Year! What a start...
space.com
@ 30+ days ago
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science
Hubble and New Horizons View of Uranus
In this image, two three-dimensional shapes (top) of Uranus are compared to the actual views of the planet from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope...
esahubble.org
@ 30+ days ago
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science
How New Zealand is preparing for catastrophic earthquakes, tsunamis – The Front Page
While The Front Page is on its summer break, we are revisiting some of the biggest news stories from 2024. New episodes return on January 13th....
nzherald.co.nz
@ 30+ days ago
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science
Prominent scientist issues urgent warning about the future: 'We don't have much time left'
While targets for reducing polluting gases keep being made and revised, one prominent scientist says there isn't much time to act to slow the...
thecooldown.com
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science
January’s Night Sky: See A Total Eclipse Of Mars By A ‘Wolf Moon’
There’s so much in store for sky-watchers in 2025 (try the biggest supermoon for years), but why not begin with some of the year's finest...
forbes.com
@ 30+ days ago
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science
New bone test could rewrite British history, say scientists
From the end of the Roman occupation through the Anglo-Saxon and Viking invasions - a new way of testing DNA in ancient bones could force...
bbc.com
@ 30+ days ago
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science
Tyrannosaur Teeth Fuel Rare Fossil Find in England
Learn about the discovery of Tyrannosaur fossils in the southern coast of England, showing that the dinosaurs lived in the region 135 million years...
discovermagazine.com
@ 30+ days ago
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science
Heat Is Claiming Mexico’s Young People
Elderly people are at high risk from extreme heat. But in one of the fastest-warming countries in the Americas, the worst rates of heat deaths...
insideclimatenews.org
@ 30+ days ago
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science
Researchers Reveal How Ozone Can Be Used to Treat Certain Types of Lung Injuries
New research conducted by researchers at Nanjing Medical University and published in the Journal of Biomedical Research explores how ozone therapy...
thedebrief.org
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science
January stargazing: Ring in 2025 with a meteor shower, ‘planet parade,’ and best chance to spot Mars
Don't miss the first meteor shower of the year. January 3 Quadrantids Meteor Shower Predicted Peak January 10 Planet Parade Begins January 13 Full Wolf Moon January 16 Mars...
popsci.com
@ 30+ days ago
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science
Covid-19 led to a new era of vaccines that could transform medicine
The covid-19 pandemic saw the advent of a revolutionary technology: the first vaccines to be approved that contain messenger RNA (mRNA). The approach...
newscientist.com
@ 30+ days ago
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science
A Long-Term Lunar Infrastructure Hub Named After the Object That Created the Moon
Getting back to the Moon is the primary goal of NASA’s Artemis program, but what do we do once we get there? That is...
universetoday.com
@ 30+ days ago
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science
Omega Centauri (cropped)
An international team of astronomers has used more than 500 images from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope spanning two decades to detect seven...
esahubble.org
@ 30+ days ago
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science
January skies: Six of our seven fellow planets in the solar system can be spotted in January evenings
The first eight weeks of 2025 present us with a striking lineup of evening planets. In order from west to east across the sky in early...
renonr.com
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science / cycling
Could bike lanes reshape car-crazy Los Angeles?
From busy freeways to classic-car street racing, Los Angeles has long been considered the capital of American car culture. Can it change in time for...
bbc.com
@ 30+ days ago
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science
Look up! Here's what's to watch for in space in 2025
After a spectacular 2024, which featured a year of wonder in the skies, including a total solar eclipse and rare sightings of the northern lights, 2025 is...
npr.org
@ 30+ days ago
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photography / science
10 must-shoot events for astrophotographers in 2025
Last year was an exciting one for casual and aspiring astrophotographers, with Northern Lights in the US and UK, the arrival of comet...
digitalcameraworld.com
@ 30+ days ago
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science
Watch Quadrantid Meteors Fly and the Moon Occult Saturn
The Quadrantids make a bright splash at the darkest time of the year. They're also a final opportunity to "gas up" before we enter the...
skyandtelescope.org
@ 30+ days ago
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science
SpaceX 2024 launch stats: Starship, SLC-40 is king, and more
SpaceX launched its final mission of the year early this morning. Unshockingly to anyone, that was a batch of Starlink satellites. Tomorrow starts a...
spaceexplored.com
@ 30+ days ago
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science
'We are attempting to survive our time ': Jimmy Carter's space legacy lives in the stars
(WHNT) — Former President Jimmy Carter's voice and legacy go far beyond Earth to live forever on two gold-plated copper discs, in space.In 1977, NASA...
whnt.com
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science
People ate lots of foxes and wildcats 10,000 years ago
About 10,000 years ago, foxes and wildcats made up a notable part of people’s diets in what is now Western Galilee in Israel. Archaeologists have...
newscientist.com
@ 30+ days ago
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science
Dinosaur Cowboy Discovers Dueling Dinosaurs In Montana
Montana’s vast landscapes have long-hidden secrets from the prehistoric past. And, buried within these rocky terrains are fossils that tell the story...
animalsaroundtheglobe.com
@ 30+ days ago
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science
The scientist inspired by Jurassic Park now fighting for marine habitats
Ana Bugnot remembers the very day she set her heart on a career in science which would ultimatey lead her to becoming a marine ecologist....
cosmosmagazine.com
@ 30+ days ago
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science
New firefighting tech is being trialled in Sardinia’s ancient forests
The fires went on for three relentless days in the summer of 2021, scorching over 13,000 hectares of western Sardinia. Residents “saw their whole...
economist.com
@ 30+ days ago
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science
The big unanswered questions about the covid-19 coronavirus
When the first signs of an unknown virus began showing up in Wuhan, China, in December 2019, scientists raced to understand what was happening. In...
newscientist.com
@ 30+ days ago
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education / science
Hey, Maybe It's time to Delete Some Old Chat Histories
Your messages going back years are likely still lurking online, potentially exposing sensitive information you forgot existed. But there's no time...
wired.com
@ 30+ days ago
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science
A pulsar-like polarization angle swing from a nearby fast radio burst
Fast radio bursts (FRBs) last for milliseconds and arrive at Earth from cosmological distances. Although their origins and emission mechanisms are...
nature.com
@ 30+ days ago
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science
NASA’s January skywatching tips: Bright meteor shower peaks, a big Planet Parade
Some beautiful skywatching events are in store for us this January. We’ve got a meteor shower peaking against a nearly moonless dark sky, Venus...
mlive.com
@ 30+ days ago
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science
Why becoming the right kind of optimist can transform your health
It is hard to tell if a chicken is an optimist. After all, you can’t ask it if a glass of water is half...
newscientist.com
@ 30+ days ago
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education / science
Zero is a young number in human history. How do our brains understand it? : Short Wave
What better time to contemplate the conundrum that is zero than the start of a new year? Zero is a fairly new concept in human...
npr.org
@ 30+ days ago
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science
Galaxies IC 2163 and NGC 2207 (Hubble and Webb Images side-by-side)
These are two views of the same scene, each showing two overlapping spiral galaxies, IC 2163 at left and NGC 2207 at right. The NASA/ESA Hubble...
esahubble.org
@ 30+ days ago
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science
This Rare Neurological Condition Can Cause an Addiction to Jokes
Brain damage can cause major personality changes, and in some rare cases, patients can become pathological jokesters, unable to suppress the urge to...
sciencealert.com
@ 30+ days ago
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science
The World’s Tallest Waterfall Is Underwater and Crucial to the Atlantic Ocean
Learn about the how the Denmark Strait cataract helps contribute to currents in the Atlantic Ocean. Some of the most stunning and spectacular sites on...
discovermagazine.com
@ 30+ days ago
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science
New 'all-optical' nanoscale sensors of force access previously unreachable environments
Mechanical force is an essential feature for many physical and biological processes. Remote measurement of mechanical signals with high sensitivity...
phys.org
@ 30+ days ago
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science
Here Are 4 Things We Need to Consider Before We Mine Our Moon
By the end of this decade, nations and private companies may well be mining the surface of the Moon. But as space becomes accessible to...
sciencealert.com
@ 30+ days ago
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science
NASA found a planet bigger than Earth that’s in a ‘habitable zone’
NASA scientists have made an amazing discovery — a planet named K2-18 b, much bigger than Earth that sits in a ‘habitable zone.’ This planet...
supercarblondie.com
@ 30+ days ago
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science
Kenya investigating fallen space debris
Kenyan officials said Wednesday they were investigating fragments of metal, believed to be from a rocket, that crashed into a village in the...
phys.org
@ 30+ days ago
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science
Cigarette smoking is associated with reduced neuroinflammation and better cognitive control in people living with HIV
People living with HIV (HIV+) are roughly twice as likely to smoke cigarettes (Smok+) as the general population. With the advent of effective...
nature.com
@ 30+ days ago
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science
New year, new comet: 2025 is kicking off with an icy space visitor
If it survives its passage of the Sun, the comet could become bright enough to see in the day time . An icy ball of gas,...
chron.com
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science
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is ready to transform our understanding of the cosmos
High atop Chile’s 2,700-meter Cerro Pachón, the air is clear and dry, leaving few clouds to block the beautiful view of the stars....
technologyreview.com
@ 30+ days ago
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science
time expansion experiences: why time slows down in altered states of consciousness
We all know that time seems to pass at different speeds in different situations. For example, time appears to go slowly when we travel to...
theconversation.com
@ 30+ days ago
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science
A decade of achievement for Australia’s principal research boat
Here are ten reasons why our boat* is the GOAT. (*Technically, it’s a ship but that doesn’t rhyme.) 112 voyages from ice to equatorWe...
cosmosmagazine.com
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science
Gen Alpha is no longer the youngest generation — Gen Beta has arrived
Gen Alpha is about to have some competition. Babies born from January 1st are part of Generation Beta, a label for those born from 2025 to 2039....
businessinsider.com
@ 30+ days ago
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science
Why the West needs prairie dogs
The prairie dog caught in Trap 69 was angry. And who could blame her? After waking up in her burrow on a mid-September morning, she’d...
hcn.org
@ 30+ days ago
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science
Brain-wide cell-type-specific transcriptomic signatures of healthy ageing in mice
Biological ageing can be defined as a gradual loss of homeostasis across various aspects of molecular and cellular function. Mammalian brains consist...
nature.com
@ 30+ days ago
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science
5 time s NASA Broke Records In 2024
The final frontier of the cosmos represents the ultimate scientific endeavor, one that's aimed at answering the most profound and meaningful...
sciencing.com
@ 30+ days ago
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science
Scientists pin down the origins of a fast radio burst
Fast radio bursts are brief and brilliant explosions of radio waves emitted by extremely compact objects such as neutron stars and possibly black...
phys.org
@ 30+ days ago
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